I need you to hear what the man in charge of your mail just did — and what happened after.
A federal judge issued an order barring Postmaster General David Steiner — by name — from finalizing a rule that restricts mail ballots. He finalized it anyway. Quietly, at night, timed to take effect before the public could even see it.
Let's walk through this beat-by-beat:
Back in June, Steiner sat before the Senate and promised, under oath, that USPS "would comply with any court orders regarding voting by mail." Not a casual remark — a commitment, made to the committee responsible for overseeing his agency.
Then a federal judge told him, by name, to stop. Ten days later, he finished the rule anyway.
Now here's the update, and it's not good. Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority handed Trump an interim win — pausing a separate ruling that had blocked his mail voting order in 23 states. They didn't rule the order legal. They just said those states waited too long to sue, even though, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent, the Court "needlessly injects chaos and uncertainty into the upcoming midterm elections" and never explains when states were supposed to act.
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Here's the one piece of good news: USPS itself is still blocked, nationwide, from implementing Steiner's rule — that's the separate order he already defied once.
The legal fight is not over.
I demanded Steiner resign. I told him plainly: A Postmaster General who promises Congress he'll follow court orders, then does the exact opposite, has forfeited the trust required to run an agency responsible for delivering the ballots of 240 million Americans. I gave him until August 31st to respond.
If Steiner can defy a named federal court order and pay no price — and now get bailed out by the Supreme Court on top of it — every official watching learns the same lesson: The courts are optional if the President wants something badly enough.
We are not going to let that lesson stick. Rush a donation to Equal Opportunity Now today and help us fight back against an administration that treats court orders as a suggestion.
